This is the theme of my series of blog posts for the A to Z Blogging Challenge of 2021.
(http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2021/03/theme-reveal-2021-atozchallenge.html)
I shall compile a list of industrial engineers starting with the letter of the day and highlight their achievements. My theme last year was industrial engineering in top global companies.
26 new articles will have the details of activities and achievements of current industrial engineers in various companies. "Productivity improvement and cost reduction" is primary contribution of industrial engineers. It is to be emphasized that effectiveness first and efficiency next. Improvement of effectiveness and efficiency keep on occurring in the organizations. Industrial engineers maintain the current effectiveness of systems and focus on increasing their efficiency.
Improvement Projects by Industrial Engineers
Continuous improvement in productivity over the years is achieved by industrial engineers based on developments in basic engineering, productivity science, productivity engineering, productivity management and creative application of these accumulated developments in processes and systems of organizations. Industrial engineers develop improvement projects on their own and involve all the employees in the organization. Breakthrough improvements are generally big projects which are taken by the technology groups of the engineering organizations, product development and process planning groups. Industrial engineers take up projects that are more pioneering or exploratory in a single process to start with. Once it is successful in one operation of a process, its horizontal and vertical deployment starts and break through improvement projects that span many processes can be taken up.
Manufacturing and Operations Strategy subjects explicitly recognize the role of "Improvement" in strategy. Even Supply Chain Management recognizes supply chain improvement in responsiveness (effectiveness) and efficiency.
Industrial engineering as system efficiency improvement discipline and profession plays a very important role in economic development of countries and industrial and engineering organizations.
What is industrial Engineering?
Industrial Engineering is System Efficiency Engineering and Human Effort Engineering. - Narayana Rao
AIIE: “Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of men, materials, and equipment.
(AIIE, 1955, Maynard, H.B., Handbook of Industrial Engineering, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 1963.)
I recently taught "Manufacturing Strategy." Improvement is one of the four strategy areas. Same in operations strategy. IEs have to contribute to this strategic area with full involvement. Improvement is in demand. "What are you delivering?" is the issue. (Narayana Rao)
What is industrial and systems engineering? (IISE official definition)
Industrial and systems engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. (Accessed on 12 March 2021 https://www.iise.org/details.aspx?id=282)
I recently taught "Manufacturing Strategy." Improvement is one of the four strategy areas. Same in operations strategy. IEs have to contribute to this strategic area with full involvement. Improvement is in demand. "What are you delivering?" is the issue. (Narayana Rao)
Value Creation Model for Industrial Engineering - Productivity Engineering.
Functions of Industrial Engineering
Productivity Science of Machining - Taylor to Current Times
Productivity science of human effort - Development of Science in Mechanic Arts - F.W. Taylor
Productivity Science of Human Effort - F.W. Gilbreth
Productivity Engineering by F.W. Taylor
Productivity Management - F.W. Taylor
Principles of Industrial Engineering
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26 Articles to be Published During April 2021
Date
March
1. Aa to Az - Industrial Engineers and Their Achievements - Productivity Improvement
2. Ba to Bz - Industrial Engineers and Their Achievements - Productivity Improvement
20. Qa to Qz - Industrial Engineers and Their Achievements - Productivity Improvement
Industrial Engineers - Mainly Pioneers
List under development
A - Adam Smith (Started his economics treatise with productivity)
B - Barnes, Babbage, Badiru Adediji, Bidanda Bopaya,
D - Diemer
E - Emerson Harrington, Emiliani Bob,
F - Fayol
G - Gilbreth, Going, Gantt
H - Heragu
I - Shahrukh Irani
K - Kanawaty, Knoeppel Charles Edward,
M - Maynard H.B., Mundel
N - Narayana Rao
O - Ohno Taiichi
P - Posteuca Alin
S - Shingo Shigeo, Sumanth David
T - F.W. Taylor
Updated on 28.4.2022, 21 March 2021
First published on 12 March 2021
I look forward to this one, should be really interesting - and starting off with a fellow Scotsman too :-)
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ReplyDeleteA stand out theme amongst writers, genealogists et al - I look forward to it - my father taught Mechanical Engineering and gave me an interest in Industrial too
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DeleteLooks very interesting. All the best...
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